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创世记第34章

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1 利亚给雅各所生的女儿底拿出去,要见那的女子们。

2 的主─希未人、哈抹的儿子示剑见他,就拉住他,与他行淫,玷辱他。

3 示剑的系恋雅各的女儿底拿,喜这女子,甜言蜜语地安慰他。

4 示剑对他父亲哈抹:求你为我聘这女子为妻。

5 雅各见示剑玷污了他的女儿底拿。那时他的儿子们正和群畜在田野,雅各就闭口不言,等他们回

6 示剑的父亲哈抹出来见雅各,要和他商议。

7 雅各的儿子们见这事,就从田野回,人人忿恨,十分恼怒;因示剑在以色列家作了丑事,与雅各的女儿行淫,这本是不该做的事。

8 哈抹和他们商议:我儿子示剑的心恋慕这女子,求你们将他我的儿子为妻。

9 你们与我们彼此结亲;你们可以把女儿我们,也可以娶我们女儿

10 你们与我们罢!这都在你们面前,只管在此居住,做买卖,置产业。

11 示剑对女儿的父亲弟兄们:但愿我在你们眼前蒙恩,你们向我要甚麽,我必你们。

12 任凭向我要多重的聘金和礼物,我必照你们所你们;只要把女子我为妻。

13 雅各的儿子们因为示剑玷污了他们的妹子底拿,就用诡诈的话回答示剑和他父亲哈抹,

14 对他们我们不能把我们的妹子没有受割礼的人为妻,因为那是我们的羞辱。

15 惟有一件才可以应允:若你们所有的男丁都受割礼,和我们一样,

16 我们就把女儿你们,也娶你们的女儿我们便与你们同,两下成为样的人民。

17 倘若你们不我们割礼我们就带着妹子走了。

18 哈抹和他的儿子示剑喜欢这

19 那少年人做这事并不迟延,因为他喜爱雅各的女儿;他在他父亲家中也是人最尊重的。

20 哈抹和他儿子示剑到本城的门口,对本城的人

21 这些人与我们和睦,不如许他们在这居住,做买卖;这也宽阔,足可容下他们。我们可以娶他们的女儿为妻,也可以把我们女儿他们。

22 惟有件事我们必须做,他们才肯应允和我们,成为样的人民:就是我们中间所有的男丁都要受割礼,和他们样。

23 他们的群畜、货财,和一切的牲口岂不都归我们麽?只要依从他们,他们就与我们

24 凡从城出入的人就都从哈抹和他儿子示剑的话;於是凡从城出入的男丁都受了割礼

25 第三,众正在疼痛的时候,雅各的两个儿子,就是底拿的哥哥西缅和利未,各拿刀,趁着众想不到的时候到城中,把一切杀了,

26 又用刀杀了哈抹和他儿子示剑,把底拿从示剑家里带出来就走了。

27 雅各的儿子们因为他们的妹子受了玷污,就被杀的人那里,掳掠那城,

28 夺了他们的羊群牛群,和,并城里田间所有的;

29 又把他们一切货财、孩子、妇女,并各房中所有的,都掳掠去了。

30 雅各西缅和利未:你们连累我,使我在这居民中,就是在迦南人和比利洗人中,有了名。我的人丁既然稀少,他们必聚集来击杀我,我和全家的人都必灭绝。

31 他们:他岂可待我们的妹子如同妓女麽?

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#4425

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4425. Genesis 34

1. And Dinah went out, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, to see the daughters of the land.

2. And Shechem saw her, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land; and he took her, and lay with her, and ravished her.

3. And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke comfortingly to the young woman. 1

4. And Shechem spoke to Hamor his father, saying, Get me this girl for a wife.

5. And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field; and Jacob kept silent until they came.

6. And Hamor, Shechem's father, went out to Jacob to speak to him.

7. And Jacob's sons came from the field when they heard; and the men were grieved and blazing with anger, because he had done something disgraceful in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.

8. And Hamor spoke to them, saying, Shechem my son, his soul longs for your daughter; give her, I beg you, to him for a wife.

9. And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves.

10. And you shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you; dwell, and carry on trade throughout it, and have possessions in it.

11. And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find grace in your eyes, and I will give that which you tell me.

12. Increase the dowry and gift to any size, 2 and I will give whatever you tell me, and give me the young woman for a wife.

13. And Jacob's sons answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and [so] spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

14. And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who has a foreskin; for that would be a reproach to us.

15. Only on this [condition] will we consent to you: If you will be as we are, by circumcising every male among you,

16. Then we will give our daughters to you, and your daughters we will take to ourselves, and we will dwell with you, and we will be one people.

17. And if you do not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.

18. And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son.

19. And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. And he was honoured above all those of his father's house.

20. And Hamor came, then Shechem his son, to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying,

21. These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and carry on trade throughout it; behold, the land is broad and spacious before them. Let us take their daughters to us as wives (femina), and let us give our daughters to them.

22. Only on this [condition] will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to be one people: That every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

23. Their acquisition, 3 and their purchase, and all their beasts, will these not be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

24. And they listened to Hamor and Shechem his son, all who went out of the gate of his city; and they circumcised every male, all who went out of the gate of his city.

25. And it happened on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, and came with confidence upon the city, and killed every male.

26. And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went away.

27. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

28. Their flocks, and their herds, and their asses, and whatever was in the city, and whatever was in the field, they took.

29. And all their wealth, and all their young children, and their women, they took captive and plundered, and everything that was in the house.

30. And Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, You have brought trouble on me, by making me stink to the inhabitant of the land, to the Canaanite and the Perizzite; and I am [a few] mortals in number, and they will be gathered together against me and will smite me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

31. And they said, Is he going to treat our sister like a prostitute?

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The subject now in the internal sense is the annihilation by the descendants of Jacob of all truth of doctrine which the Ancient Church possessed, Hamor and Shechem together with the people of their city representing that truth. For the representative of the Church among the descendants of Jacob consisted wholly in external things devoid of internal, whereas the representative Church among the Ancients consisted in external things together with internal.

脚注:

1. literally, spoke to the young woman's (or girl's) heart

2. literally, Multiply upon me exceedingly dowry and gift

3. i.e. small cattle - see 4487.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.